🏎 mod_swift for M1 Homebrew

I am pleased to announce that mod_swift now runs w/ Xcode 13.3.1, on macOS 12 M1 Macs, with the native Homebrew installed in /opt! A neat way to write Apache modules in Swift 5.

Server Side Swift the right way.

Documentation

Quick Install

$ brew tap modswift/mod_swift
$ brew install httpd mod_swift

$ swift apache validate
swift-driver version: 1.45.2 The Swift Apache build environment looks sound.

  srcroot:   /Users/helge/tmp/mods_helloworld
  module:    mods_helloworld
  config:    debug
  product:   /Users/helge/tmp/mods_helloworld/.build/mods_helloworld.so
  apxs:      /opt/homebrew/bin/apxs
  moddir:    /opt/homebrew/lib/httpd/modules
  relmoddir: /
  mod_swift: /opt/homebrew/opt/mod_swift
  swift:     5.6.0
  cert:      self-signed-mod_swift-localhost-server.crt
  http/2:    yes

HelloWorld Apache Module

$ mkdir mods_helloworld && cd mods_helloworld
$ swift apache init
The Swift Apache build environment looks sound.

  module:    mods_helloworld
  config:    debug
  product:   /Users/helge/tmp/tests/mods_helloworld/.build/mods_helloworld.so
  apxs:      /usr/local/bin/apxs
  mod_swift: /usr/local/opt/mod_swift

$ swift apache build
Fetching https://github.com/modswift/Apache.git
Fetching https://github.com/modswift/CApache.git
Completed resolution in 3.65s
Cloning https://github.com/modswift/CApache.git
Resolving https://github.com/modswift/CApache.git at 2.0.1
Cloning https://github.com/modswift/Apache.git
Resolving https://github.com/modswift/Apache.git at 0.5.0
[2/2] Compiling Swift Module 'mods_helloworld' (1 sources)

$ ls -hl .build/mods_helloworld.so
-rwxr-xr-x  1 helge  staff   173K 12 Mai 15:29 .build/mods_helloworld.so

$ swift apache serve
Note: DocRoot /usr/local/var/www/htdocs
Starting Apache on port 8042/8442:
GET /helloworld/ 200 715 - 0ms

URL: http://localhost:8042/helloworld

Have fun! hh

Written on May 8, 2022